Hi All, Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to keep a function, E.g. socket.gethostbyaddr("12.34.56.78"), >From taking to long-if it's run for more than 1 second, the function gethostbyaddr will be terminated? I was thinking about using threads, but I can't seem to get the hang of them. I've tried to have the script break if the clock time is greater than 1 second, but python won't respond to anything until the function finishes, not surprisingly. Sorry if there is a very obvious answer to this... The below program is to do a search on our wireless network at work, so that we can find any rogue computers that aren't supposed to be there.
Code: #code starts import socket import sys changingip=[] ip=sys.argv[1] ip=ip.split(".") for i in range(0,254): ipaddr=ip[0]+"."+ip[1]+"."+ip[2]+"."+str(i) try: #the next line is my issue; I need to make sure it doesn't go over 1 second while running print socket.gethostbyaddr(ipaddr) #the next block is to ensure that if the ip I am checking doesn't exist on the network, the script will move along to the next ip except: pass #end of script #I know the code isn't pretty, but except for the timeing issues, it works great. Any help is greatly appreciated. THX, Brandon McGinty -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.5/284 - Release Date: 3/17/2006 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list